Spotlight on measles 2010: a cluster of measles in a hospital setting in Slovenia, March 2010.

abstract：:The incidence of pertussis throughout the Netherlands, determined by notifications, rose suddenly in 1996 to reach 27.2 cases per 100 000 population, compared with 2.3/100 000 on average from 1989 to 1995. Earlier increases in 1989-1990 and 1994 reflected ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Neppelenbroek SE,De Melker HE,Schellekens JF,Conyn-Van Spaendonck MA

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulism is a severe neuroparalytic disease caused by toxin produced by Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic spore-forming bacillus. Physicians in Norway are required to notify the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) of cases of botulism immediately ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Kuusi M,Hasseltvedt V,Aavitsland P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the study of outbreaks of an acute exanthematous disease among children of three schools in the municipality of Braga (Portugal). Laboratory tests were performed for five cases, showing that the disease was not due to infection by measles or rubella virus, and infection with parvovirus B19 was confi...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Gonçalves G,Correia AM,Palminha P,Rebelo de Andrade H,Alves A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2002, the French Food Safety Agency drew attention to the lack of information on the prevalence of human cryptosporidiosis in the country. Two years later, the ANOFEL Cryptosporidium National Network (ACNN) was set up to provide public health authorities with data on the incidence and epidemiology of human cryptosp...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： ANOFEL Cryptosporidium National Network.

更新日期：2010-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Iberian hares (Lepus granatensis) were recently deemed responsible for an outbreak of human leishmaniasis affecting metropolitan Madrid, Spain. However, the reservoir potential of hares in Europe is poorly known. We report a retrospective survey on Leishmania infantum, the causal agent of zoonotic endemic leishmaniasi...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Ruiz-Fons F,Ferroglio E,Gortázar C

更新日期：2013-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid identification of the potentially toxigenic Corynebacterium species, C. diphtheriae, C. ulcerans and C. pseudotuberculosis is essential for diagnosis and treatment of diphtheria and diphtheria-like diseases. We used matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDIT-OF MS) i...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Konrad R,Berger A,Huber I,Boschert V,Hörmansdorfer S,Busch U,Hogardt M,Schubert S,Sing A

更新日期：2010-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In some influenza surveillance systems, timely transport to laboratories for reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing is challenging.Guidelines suggest that samples can be stored at 4°Cfor up to 96 hours but the effect of longer storage times has not been systematically evaluated. We collected ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Caselton D,Arunga G,Emukule G,Muthoka P,Mayieka L,Kosgey A,Ochola R,Waiboci L,Feikin D,Mott J,Breiman R,Katz M

更新日期：2014-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for timely establishment of diagnostic assays arose when Germany was confronted with the first travel-associated outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Europe. We describe our laboratory experiences during a large contact tracing investigation, comparing previously publish...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Konrad R,Eberle U,Dangel A,Treis B,Berger A,Bengs K,Fingerle V,Liebl B,Ackermann N,Sing A

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In low-incidence countries in the European Union (EU), tuberculosis (TB) is concentrated in big cities, especially among certain urban high-risk groups including immigrants from TB high-incidence countries, homeless people, and those with a history of drug and alcohol misuse. Elimination of TB in European big cities r...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： van Hest NA,Aldridge RW,de Vries G,Sandgren A,Hauer B,Hayward A,Arrazola de Oñate W,Haas W,Codecasa LR,Caylà JA,Story A,Antoine D,Gori A,Quabeck L,Jonsson J,Wanlin M,Orcau Å,Rodes A,Dedicoat M,Antoun F,van Deuteko

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli clone ST131 (ESBL-ST131) has spread in healthcare settings worldwide. The reasons for its successful spread are unknown, but might include more effective transmission and/or longer persistence. We evaluated the colonisation dynamics of ESBL-produci...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Overdevest I,Haverkate M,Veenemans J,Hendriks Y,Verhulst C,Mulders A,Couprie W,Bootsma M,Johnson J,Kluytmans J

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An early estimate of disease transmissibility is essential for a well-informed public health response to a newly emerged infectious disease. In this study, we ask what type and quantity of data are needed for useful estimation of the initial reproduction number (R). It is possible to estimate R from case incidence dat...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Becker NG,Wang D,Clements M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The worrying increase of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in Amsterdam was investigated in two studies carried out by the department of AIDS research of the municipal health service. The results indicate that the introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapies (HAART) may have had an influence on the increa...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Stolte G,Dukers NH,de Wit JB,Fennema H,Coutinho RA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the nucleoprotein gene of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from a patient interfered with detection in a widely used commercial assay. Some 0.2% of the isolates in the EpiCoV database contain this SNP. Although SARS-CoV-2 was still det...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Ziegler K,Steininger P,Ziegler R,Steinmann J,Korn K,Ensser A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive group A streptococcal infection has a 15% case fatality rate and a risk of secondary transmission. This retrospective study used two national data sources from England; enhanced surveillance (2009) and a case management system (2011-2013) to identify clusters of severe group A streptococcal disease. Twenty-fo...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Mearkle R,Saavedra-Campos M,Lamagni T,Usdin M,Coelho J,Chalker V,Sriskandan S,Cordery R,Rawlings C,Balasegaram S

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:On 29 August 1996 Ireland's Eastern Health Board (EHB) was informed of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness in a psychiatric hospital in Dublin. Fifty people among 240 members of staff and 183 patients had reportedly fallen ill since 27 August and new ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Grein T,O Flanagan D,McCarthy T,Prendergast T

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since October 2008, a total of 143 cases of rubella have affected the two Austrian provinces Styria and Burgenland. The index case occurred in mid-October 2008, but was not notified to the public health authorities until February 2009, when the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety was asked to investigate a clus...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Schmid D,Kasper S,Kuo HW,Aberle S,Holzmann H,Daghofer E,Wassermann-Neuhold M,Feenstra O,Krischka C,Allerberger F

更新日期：2009-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection remains of major public health importance in Europe, with evidence of increasing transmission of HIV in several countries. This article provides an overview of HIV and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) surveillance data, and indicates that since 2000 the rate of new...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： van de Laar MJ,Likatavicius G,Stengaard AR,Donoghoe MC

更新日期：2008-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In January-February 2008, one imported case of measles initiated a series of exposures with around 380 nosocomial secondary contacts. Susceptible individuals were traced early and control measures were initiated that managed to limit the consequences considerably. Only four secondary cases were identified by the end o...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Follin P,Dotevall L,Jertborn M,Khalid Y,Liljeqvist JA,Muntz S,Qvarfordt I,Söderström A,Wiman A,Ahrén C,Osterberg P,Johansen K

更新日期：2008-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimating influenza vaccine effectiveness (IVE) early in the season helps measuring the consequences of a mismatch between the vaccine and the circulating strain and guiding alternative or complementary interventions. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control is funding a project to develop pilot studies...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Valenciano M,Ciancio B,Moren A,Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group.

更新日期：2008-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an outbreak of viral gastroenteritis linked to municipal drinking water in a town in northern Italy in June 2009. Over one month we identified 299 probable cases of whom 30 were confirmed for at least one of the following viruses: norovirus, rotavirus, enterovirus or astrovirus. Water samples and filters fro...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Scarcella C,Carasi S,Cadoria F,Macchi L,Pavan A,Salamana M,Alborali GL,Losio MM,Boni P,Lavazza A,Seyler T

更新日期：2009-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified the first two cases of the Finnish new variant of Chlamydia trachomatis (F-nvCT) beyond Finland in two clinical urogenital specimens in Örebro County, Sweden. These Aptima Combo 2 assay-negative specimens were Aptima Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) assay positive and had the characteristic C1515T mutation in ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Unemo M,Hansen M,Hadad R,Lindroth Y,Fredlund H,Puolakkainen M,Sundqvist M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR GNB) were found to colonise 60.8% (95% confidence interval: 52.3-68.9) of 143 refugee patients mainly from Syria (47), Afghanistan (29), and Somalia (14) admitted to the University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany, between June and December 2015. This percentage exceeds the p...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Reinheimer C,Kempf VA,Göttig S,Hogardt M,Wichelhaus TA,O'Rourke F,Brandt C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 3 April 2017, a wild poliovirus type 2 (WPV2) spill occurred in a Dutch vaccine manufacturing plant. Two fully vaccinated operators with risk of exposure were advised on stringent personal hygiene and were monitored for virus shedding. Poliovirus (WPV2-MEF1) was detected in the stool of one, 4 days after exposure, ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Duizer E,Ruijs WL,van der Weijden CP,Timen A

更新日期：2017-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An average of 20 000 rubella cases were recorded annually in Denmark until 1987. In 1989, however, only 1006 cases were reported, and the true current incidence of rubella infection in Denmark is unknown but considered to be very low and <1 per 100 000 population. The significant decrease in the inci-dence of rubella ...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Glismann S

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a rapidly changing environment, national institutions in charge of health security can no longer rely only on traditional disease reporting mechanisms that are not designed to recognise emergence of new hazards. Epidemic intelligence provides a conceptual framework within which countries may adapt their public heal...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Paquet C,Coulombier D,Kaiser R,Ciotti M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of meningoencephalitis caused by Toscana virus (TOSV) with central facial paralysis lasting over two days acquired in south-eastern France. The patient was not febrile either before or during the course of the disease. The diagnosis was established by both real-time RT-PCR and virus isolation with com...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Marlinge M,Crespy L,Zandotti C,Piorkowski G,Kaphan E,Charrel RN,Ninove L

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 52 cases of measles linked to music and arts festivals in England and Wales, between mid-June and mid-October 2016. Nearly half were aged 15 to 19 years. Several individuals who acquired measles at one festival subsequently attended another festival while infectious, resulting in multiple interlinked outbrea...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： le Polain de Waroux O,Saliba V,Cottrell S,Young N,Perry M,Bukasa A,Ramsay M,Brown K,Amirthalingam G

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In Austria, Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Dublin, a bovine-adapted serovar, rarely causes infections in humans. In 2000, Austria was within the European mean with an incidence of 0.1 per million inhabitants. Our data show that the vast majority of all serovar Dublin infections (human and non-human) can b...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Allerberger F,Liesegang A,Grif K,Prager R,Danzl J,Höck F,Ottl J,Dierich MP,Berghold C,Neckstaller I,Tschäpe H,Fisher I

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persons with multiple syphilis reinfections may play an important role in syphilis transmission. We analysed all syphilis tests carried out for people attending the HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinic at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, from 1992 to 2012 to evaluate the extent to which...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Kenyon C,Lynen L,Florence E,Caluwaerts S,Vandenbruaene M,Apers L,Soentjens P,Van Esbroeck M,Bottieau E

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Colistin resistance was investigated in 1,696 isolates collected from 2007 to 2014 within the frame of the French livestock antimicrobial resistance surveillance programme. The mcr-1 gene was detected in all commensal Escherichia coli isolates with a minimum inhibitory concentration to colistin above the 2 mg/L cut-of...

journal_title：Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

authors： Perrin-Guyomard A,Bruneau M,Houée P,Deleurme K,Legrandois P,Poirier C,Soumet C,Sanders P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00